TROLAND'S TROIKA, PARKER'S PAIR

The buyers are majority owner George Kimble of Arizona and minority owner James Walker of Florida, doing business as Mahalo Broadcasting LLC of an Arizona address.

Troland's Skynet Hawaii LLC entered the isle broadcast scene with the KBGX purchase in October 2003 and by November had snagged his third station for a total of $775,000 -- not counting the costs of getting the stations on the air, or, in KIPA's case, back on the air.

Separately, Idaho-based broadcaster Scott Parker's Parrott Broadcasting LP has a pair of properties on the Big Island, now that his purchase of yet-unbuilt KHWA-FM 92.1 in Holualoa, Kona, has won Federal Communications Commission approval.

Maryland-based seller Marquee Broadcasting Inc. had won the rights to build the station in a 2004 FCC auction, but decided to sell to Parker's Parrott in March for $356,250.

Parker's prior purchase of the long-silent KHWI-FM 92.7 in Hilo for $375,000 was approved by the commission in May.

Parker pledged, in the KHWA deal, to have it on the air within six months of closing and told TheBuzz in March he hoped to have both stations on the air this summer.